Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised)
Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source
I will comment on that.
It is the case that the percentage of the population that is fully vaccinated at 8.06% is ahead of the European average of 7.8%. These are the most recent figures I have, but they are two days old and the Taoiseach may have access to more recent ones. If he can, he might clarify. All of that said, the percentage of the population that has received one dose is 20% whereas the EU's percentage is 21.26%. In terms of what is probably the best indicator of where a nation stands, that being, doses per hundred, Ireland's figure was 28.6 whereas the figure for the EU was 29.18. This seems to indicate that, if anything, Ireland is behind the European average - not by a massive amount, but behind all the same - and that a statement asserting that we are ahead of the European average is not correct. Would the Taoiseach like to clarify?
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